A look at the best news photos from around the world.
August 8, 2016

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People visit an area of Danxia landform in Zhangye, Gansu province, China.

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A boy searches for coins offered by devotees during the Bol Bom pilgrimage at Pashupatinath temple in Kathmandu, Nepal.

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People watch Japanese Emperor Akihito's video address on a large screen in Tokyo.

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Research scientist Sung-Jin Park displays a tissue-engineered robot on a piece of glass in a laboratory at Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusettes. The stingray-shaped robot, capable of paddling in water after exposure to blue light, has a gold skeleton, silicone fins and the heart muscle cells of a rat.